BY CALVIN ROBINSON Boris Johnson has pledged increased spending in Education of £4.6 billion per year by 2022. That’s incredibly close to the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ findings of the boost to funding that schools will likely need to reverse so-called ‘cuts’. Think tank Onward projected that schools need £3.5 Read more…
BY SUSAN HALL What does business want from the Mayor of London? There are two schools of thought. If you subscribe to the Reaganite view that “the most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help”, then you might hope for a Read more…
BY REBECCA RYAN On the 24th June 2016 we awoke to a new dawn. Leave had won the referendum. The UK had voted to leave the EU. Finally, it seems we will have a government that is going to deliver it. Already there is a spring in the Conservative Party’s Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON Boris Johnson. The new leader of the Conservative Party and the next Prime Minister of this country. It was, in truth, inevitable. The momentum behind the classically-educated blonde bombshell has felt unstoppable since the leadership election was announced – indeed, since Mrs. May’s leadership was announced. These Read more…
BY KEITH PRINCE “Strikes are ultimately a sign of failure. Every day there’s a strike it caused huge misery and inconvenience to Londoners… As mayor what I’d do is roll up my sleeves and make sure that I’m talking to everyone who runs public transport to make sure there are Read more…
Whilst the Remain establishment have been doing everything they can to frustrate Brexit, our financial contribution to the EU continues to go up. New government figures released yesterday show the UK’s payments to Brussels have risen by an eye-popping 20.4%. The figures, which were tucked away on page 23 of Read more…
BY REBECCA RYAN If Brexit is about one thing, then Brexit is about Freedom. Freedom to make our own laws, to set our own tax levels, to negotiate our own trade deals. This will be of enormous benefit to our country. Free marketeers should be feeling particularly upbeat. It has Read more…
BY CHLOE WESTLEY The left talk about businesses as if they are always the bad guys – rich, powerful, elitist and greedy. In their eyes, any success or profit should be punished by higher taxation. You’ll often find the likes of John McDonnell accuse them of ‘not paying their fair Read more…
BY ANDREW BOFF Rent controls are a zombie policy. However many times you think they are dead, they keep rising again as a new generation of left-wing politicians seizes upon them as an easy answer to a difficult problem. Perhaps this is unsurprising when you consider that the case for Read more…